ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,825, issued on March 4, was assigned to NXERA PHARMA UK Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Oxexin 1 receptor antagonists" was invented by Giles Albert Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), Miles Stuart Congreve (Cambridge, Great Britain), John Andrew Christopher (Cambridge, Great Britain), Nigel Alan Swain (Cambridge, Great Britain), Sarah Joanne Bucknell (Cambridge, Great Britain), Anne Mary Stephenson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Benjamin Gerald Tehan (Cambridge, Great Britain), Geraint Jones (Nottingham, Great Britain), Mark Mills (Nottingham, Great Britain), Anil Patel (Nottingham, Great Britain) and Andrew William Phillips (Nottingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* re...